"I sang a little softer, wrote some stranger lyrics than I would usually, I suppose," a sleepy Mac DeMarco told Zane Lowe about the latest single from his new album This Old Dog. "I just tried to keep it as sexy as I could."
A silky, synth-heavy jam, "On the Level" finds Mac in a quiet, introspective mood as he sings melancholic lines like, "Boy, this could be your year / Make an old man proud of you / Forget about the tears."
I had bought a new synthesizer," DeMarco says. "A Roland D-50, great keyboard. Sitting in the room I have that I was doing everything in, in California at my house now. And kind of just started tickling it a little bit and pressed record. The lyrics came afterwards, but the instruments were just, 'hey, there you go. there they are.'"
Listen to "On the Level" above, hear his quick interview with Zane Lowe below, and look out for This Old Dog on May 5.
